But a steady stream of elected officials have come out and declared that this is clearly and unquestionably an attack by the Russian government. Most of the news stories went out of their way to connect the attack to Grizzly Steppe, strongly implying that it wasn't just raising alert levels but exactly matched the discovered malware.
Your summary is a good one on how these things happen naturally, but I'm seeing a healthy dose of direct provocation in this panic.
But a steady stream of elected officials have come out and declared that this is clearly and unquestionably an attack by the Russian government. Most of the news stories went out of their way to connect the attack to Grizzly Steppe, strongly implying that it wasn't just raising alert levels but exactly matched the discovered malware.
Your summary is a good one on how these things happen naturally, but I'm seeing a healthy dose of direct provocation in this panic.